OK, easy fix, which is why it took me a few hours to figure out.
I made the parent forum "active" so that it is visible on the forum index page. It will show the various dorms underneath it.
If you alter permissions for that parent forum, and set everything to "No" for all usergroups (except for your main admin, user id 1), when people do a search query, the parent forum, and the various dorms underneath, will not show up in any search (new posts, last day posts, two week posts, etc).
Accepted dorm members can access the dorm area via the dorms.php link, where ever you may have placed it.
Love this hack.
rich
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